Solar activity directly affects the frequency and intensity of the aurora, but it is not the only factor. To see it, we also need sufficiently dark nights, clear skies and a location away from light pollution.
When is the best time to see the northern lights? Where can you see them?
Summer is certainly the best time to travel to Greenland
Greenland’s entire coastal strip, especially in the south, is free of ice and snow in summer, so our hikes pass through snow-free areas of willow and dwarf birch.
Making the most of the long summer daylight hours, it is possible to undertake treks varied, with elevation changes of 50 to 550 m and around 2 to 6 hours of actual walking, all in daylight. Most routes are cross-country, as there are no tracks or trails in Greenland, but walking poses no difficulty in summer.
Greenland remains one of the wildest and most unexplored territories in the Arctic. In summer the ice formed during the long winter nights melts and allows us access to the fjords, an incomparable natural spectacle formed by the erosion of the great glaciers that existed in the times when these lands were covered with ice.
Greenland is the northernmost country in the world, located on the American continent between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, facing the Canadian coast on one side and the north-west of Europe on the other. Kalaallit Nunaat (the country's native name) is the largest island in the world, excluding the island continent of Australia, with a total area of 2,415,100 km². Just over 83% of Greenland is covered in ice, making it the world's second-largest ice reserve after Antarctica.
Greenland is one of the last remaining unspoilt and remote destinations on the planet.
Some sayings and proverbs are wrong. Dust you are, and to dust you shall return. Wrong. We are water. Water is more abundant in our bodies than any other substance. And we need it. Water is life. Seas dominate the Earth’s surface, and life thrives along their shores. Then there are lakes and rivers, often the cradles of civilisations, or humanity’s first “highways”, connecting distant civilisations.
In your next holidays We suggest a series of trips in which water is both our means of travel and the star attraction. By canoe, by kayak or sailing. In the south, close to the North Pole, on rivers or out at sea…
Remember that this Wednesday at our offices in Viajes Tuareg, a polar explorer and an anthropologist specialising in the Inuit will share first-hand information and remarkable personal stories from their Greenland journeys.
Francesc Bailon and Gerard Van Der Berg will give this travel talk and lead an expedition to the Ammassalimmiut communities on Greenland's east coast, the last group to come into contact with the ‘white man’.
See article: East Greenland. Polar exploration and anthropology with the Inuit
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